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You can't be a change-maker by reading a book. -- Bill Drayton
For a child, reading a book can be such an intense experience. -- Michelle Paver
The reading or non-reading a book will never keep down a single petticoat. -- Lord Byron
What I am best at is reading a book and then writing a critical essay. -- Rivers Cuomo
I'm reading a book about Romaine Brooks, a wonderful painter from early in the last century. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all. -- Oscar Wilde
When people are reading a book, it's a personal thing. They're reading it; it's in their own mind; it's in their own personal space when they're reading it. -- Kristy Swanson
I even smoke in bed. Imagine smoking a cigar in bed, reading a book. Next to your bed, there's a cigar table with a special cigar ashtray, and your wife is reading a book on how to save the environment. -- Raul Julia
You're either reading a book or you're not. -- Jonathan Franzen
You're never alone when you're reading a book. -- Susan Wiggs
Somehow reading a book never feels like sitting still. -- Jef Mallett
You can always spot bright people. They are reading a book. -- Gary Soto
There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. -- Gail Carson Levine
There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I can feel infinitely alive curled up on the sofa reading a book. -- Benedict Cumberbatch
Spending waiting moments doing crossword puzzles or reading a book you brought yourself. -- Marilyn vos Savant
Today I fell asleep reading a book. The book is called INSOMNIA. I win. -- Adam Young
I was reading a book... 'the history of glue' - I couldn't put it down. -- Tim Vine
You have to remember that it is impossible to commit a crime while reading a book. -- John Waters
Isn't it wonderful how dogs can win friends and influence people without ever reading a book. -- Charles E. McKenzie
I enjoy the idea that even though I'm resting, I'm accomplishing something by reading a book. -- Evangeline Lilly
I don't thrive on stress. I love lying on the deck on our houseboat reading a book. -- Bear Grylls
I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love. -- Jorge Luis Borges
A wild and crazy weekend involves sitting on the front porch, smoking a cigar, reading a book. -- Robert M. Gates
I still believe that sitting down and reading a book is the best way to really learn something. -- Eric Schmidt
I always thought the joy of reading a book is not knowing what happens next. (Leonard Shelby, Memento) -- Christopher Nolan
I've been reading a book lately. That book is Thom Yorke, and the conclusion is that he's brilliant. -- Thom Yorke
It's strange to describe reading a book as a really great experience, but that's kind of how it felt. -- Stephen Chbosky
As opposed to being on the Internet, there's something really nice about reading a book or talking to authors. -- Hans Zimmer
You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over. -- Dale Archer
I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy. -- John McGahern
It's like reading a book about a life that you will never occupy, but that's the beauty of being transported. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me. -- Jonathan Swift
The intellectual is, quite simply, a human being who has a pencil in his or her hand when reading a book. -- George Steiner
There are two motives for reading a book; one, that you enjoy it; the other, that you can boast about it. -- Bertrand Russell
When I was 9 or 10 years old it wasn't the thing to be seen doing - reading a book in your spare time. -- Tom Felton
Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with. -- Jeannette Walls
Everyone brings their own perceptions when reading a book about a real person. At the end they will take away whatever they wish. -- Patricia Montandon
People can relate to reading a book for the first time and the world starts to create, even without you prepping for it. -- Alicia Vikander
I'm not only a songwriter but I'm a massive music fan and I love going to shows. It's different than reading a book. -- Craig Finn
So I'm reading a book on my new iPad, but can't the iPad read it for me? Do I have to do everything? -- Matthew Perry
I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger. -- Craig Ferguson
I know in this time of great technological advancement, the idea of reading a book seems almost anachronistic, but I think it's worth preserving. -- Garth Stein
Every time there's a revolution, it comes from somebody reading a book about revolution. David Walker wrote a book and Nat Turner did his thing. -- Mike Tyson
When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made. -- Mokokoma Mokhonoana
I spend my nights just sitting and reading a book and drinking my tea and walking my dog. That's about as exciting as my life gets. -- Peter Dinklage
Enlightenment is the culmination of self-knowledge, pure unadulterated knowledge. Not knowledge you can get from reading a book, it comes from perfecting your awareness, your mind. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
If the reader enters a kind of immersive experience reading a book, then I have to enter a kind of immersive state to do my best work. -- Jeff Vandermeer
Read more. Read every time you go to bed; read in the day - because at least, reading a book, you can't be distracted by anything else. -- Theo James
There are those who, while reading a book, recall, compare, conjure up emotions from other, previous readings. This is one of the most delicate forms of adultery. -- Ezequiel Martinez Estrada
Some people can't learn to play the guitar by reading a book. You have to actually try to manage a bit and you won't do well at first. -- Keith Rabois
I needed to really pursue music and learn what I needed to learn on my own by getting in and doing it, not by reading a book about it. -- Kacey Musgraves
The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists - even of the fact he is reading a book. -- Ford Madox Ford
When I'm going to see a comedian, I don't want to see them hold back, and when I'm reading a book, I don't want to hear an abridged version. -- Kathy Griffin
Murder, arson, adultery, drugging and drinking, cruel politics--reading a book crammed with such activities can make the timid and yearning among us feel like the happiest people in the world. -- Edith Pearlman
I liked climbing trees and could often be found up one reading a book. I played games with Dad and drew maps for him on isometric paper. It was very bonding. -- Rhianna Pratchett
I've just finished reading a book about the brilliant Margaret Rutherford. She wasn't a beauty, but inside she was absolutely blazing and passionate about her work. She's one of those life-affirming characters. -- Sophie Thompson
We feel the same emotions for our ideas as we do for the real world, which is why we can cry while reading a book, or fall in love with movie stars. -- Roger Ebert
Nothing more rapidly inclines a person to go into a monastery than reading a book on etiquette. There are so many trivial ways in which it is possible to commit some social sin. -- Quentin Crisp
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process. -- LeVar Burton
Court TV. I can't stop watching it. I am absolutely obsessed! If I'm not reading a book or spending time with my husband, my friends or my dog, I am watching Court TV. -- Debra Messing
For me, learning is a continuous process and an all-inclusive one - reading a book, learning a musical instrument or learning the martial art called taekwondo. Teach myself something new - that's my prayer. -- Sonu Nigam
I couldn't imagine anyone ever reading a book enough to make it look like that. It looked like it had been driven over by a school bus after someone had taken a bath with it. -- Maggie Stiefvater
I've just surfaced from spending several days in a state of rapture: I was reading a book... I felt alive and engaged and positively brilliant, bursting with ideas, brimming with memories of other books I've loved. -- Nora Ephron
I remember reading a book set in the future, it was written in the 1870s projecting to 1920, and this time traveler said you couldn't tell the difference between men and women. He saw what was coming. -- Vivienne Westwood
When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt; there's pressure to keep the momentum up. -- David Nicholls
Our culture constantly inundates us with new information, and yet our brains capture so little of it. I can spend half a dozen hours reading a book and then have only a foggy notion of what it was about. -- Joshua Foer
I don't understand what apps are on my phone. Why do they ask for passwords? Why do they all ask for different passwords? It's so frustrating that I end up just reading a book every time I try to go online. -- Chelsea Handler
Never underestimate the power of gaining a new perspective by simply changing your immediate environment. Going for a walk, reading a book, or talking to a friend can provide you with life-changing insights that you not otherwise attain while remaining stagnant. -- Hal Elrod
...the sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal, or two friends talking over a pint of beer, or a man alone reading a book that interests him..." - C.S. Lewis: Weight of Glory -- C. S. Lewis
I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon as I realise I'm reading a book that hasn't got its roots in a reality I can comprehend, I switch off. -- Michael Morpurgo
Oprah's got good politics, she's got a good heart, and she'll have us all up Jazzercising at six in the morning. This cannot be a bad thing, and reading a book while we're Jazzercising. So America would be better off if Oprah were president. -- Michael Moore
I want people to read good work. If I see someone reading a book by Lorrie Moore or Jennifer Egan, I'm psyched. If I see them reading X Latin American Writer Who Sucks, I'm not psyched. But in terms of news, I do think that's important. -- Daniel Alarcon
I like to read a couple books at once. I was reading the Princess Diana book. I'm reading a book about Chicago and the mob. Right now I'm also reading the Bible, beginning to end. I'm very religious. That's how I've gotten to where I am. -- Heidi Montag
Sarah Palin - now don't laugh - is writing a book. Not just reading a book, writing a book. Actually, in the word of the publisher, she's 'collaborating' on a book. What an embarrassment! It's one of these 'I told you,' books that jocks do. -- Chris Matthews
When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be able to spend a day reading a book, the realization dawns that perhaps the situation has become a little more stressful than you would like. -- Julian Assange
The secret of a good librarian is that he never reads anything more of the literature in his charge than the title and the table of contents. Anyone who lets himself go and starts reading a book is lost as a librarian...He's bound to lose perspective. -- Robert Musil
It's not in my nature to chop people's heads off, per se, or rob a bank or any crazy thing I've done on screen. I'm just comfortable reading a book or spending time with my wife and my daughter or watching the fight on TV with the fellas. -- Bokeem Woodbine
Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book. -- Anthony Browne
My mom would always read a book to me at night from when I was three. Now, I can't go to sleep without reading a book. At the same time, once I read, it's difficult for me to go to sleep, as I have an overactive imagination and I start thinking. -- Sonam Kapoor
Going out at night and having a fabulous social life takes a lot out of you, and I don't know if I have that much to give, honestly. I would rather give that time to my kids or spend that time reading a book or watching a film. I am selfish and lazy. -- Kajol
I was a misfit, but I think most teenagers feel that way. I don't care if you were a popular jock or the kid who spent his lunch hours in a stairwell reading a book, we all seem to have dealt with insecurities of one kind or another throughout our high school years. -- Charles de Lint
When you read a supernatural suspense story or a ghost story, or a horror story, the evil at play is something that you can dismiss. And I wonder if, in this time, if people really want to be sitting on the subway reading a book about someone releasing a dirty bomb on the subway. -- Michael Koryta
If you were a medieval scholar reading a book, you knew that there was a reasonable likelihood you'd never see that particular text again, and so a high premium was placed on remembering what you read. You couldn't just pull a book off the shelf to consult it for a quote or an idea. -- Joshua Foer
Television viewing has become for me a completely different experience, because I don't watch shows on a weekly basis. I wait until the DVD or I TiVo everything and wait until the end of a season and watch it all over a weekend. For me that's a really satisfying experience, like reading a book. -- Alan Ball
When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination. -- Mark Bradford
I quit flying myself last year and that was difficult for me because I enjoy it as much as playing golf. It was an adjustment sitting in the back of the plane, rather than at the controls, but I've grown accustomed to it and enjoy reading a book, doing some work or challenging my wife to a game of dominos. -- Arnold Palmer
Allowing yourself to stop reading a book - at page 25, 50, or even, less frequently, a few chapters from the end - is a rite of passage in a reader's life, the literary equivalent of a bar mitzvah or a communion, the moment at which you look at yourself and announce: Today I am an adult. I can make my own decisions. -- Sara Nelson
I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it. -- Salman Rushdie
One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the water's edge while my sisters and I played beside her. Of all the life lessons she taught me, that is one of my favorites: to take time at a place I love, restore my spirit with books and the beach. -- Luanne Rice
So he lent her books. After all, one of life's best pleasures is reading a book of perfect beauty; more pleasurable still is rereading that book; most pleasurable of all is lending it to the person one loves: Now she is reading or has just read the scene with the mirrors; she who is so lovely is drinking in that loveliness I've drunk. -- William T. Vollmann
Why do you keep reading a book? Usually to find out what happens. Why do you give up and stop reading it? There may be lots of reasons. But often the answer is you don't care what happens. So what makes the difference between caring and not caring? The author's cruelty. And the reader's sympathy...it takes a mean author to write a good story. -- Gail Carson Levine
I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer. -- E. L. Doctorow
A book worth reading is worth buying. -- John Ruskin
The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it. -- Anthony Burgess
My idea of a good time is creating something and reading a good book. -- Robin Gibb
Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well. -- Mark Haddon
I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it. -- Umberto Eco
For me, a holiday is about taking a book and going to a mountain and reading. -- Sonam Kapoor
What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading. -- Alice James
I fell asleep reading a dull book and dreamed I kept on reading, so I awoke from sheer boredom. -- Heinrich Heine
Writing a book for me, I expect, is very similar to the experience of reading the book for my readers. -- R. A. Salvatore
I would love to be in public one day and see someone reading my book. I think that would be so ridiculously cool. -- Jennifer A. Nielsen
I was always taught that book keeping was more relevant than book reading. The only thing worth reading was meant to be a balance sheet. -- Ashwin Sanghi
I think it's so important for young readers to find a book or series that ignites their passion for reading, especially boys, whose interest in reading wanes as they grow older. -- Jennifer A. Nielsen
The heart is the only book worth reading. -- Ajahn Chah
Only one book is worth reading: the heart. -- Ajahn Chah
Reading a great book causes jolts and frights. -- Mason Cooley
..holding a book but reading the empty spaces. -- Ray Bradbury
Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. ... -- Anita Silvey
No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading. -- Orson Scott Card
You live several lives while reading [a good book]. -- William Styron
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. -- Angela Carter
Reading one book is like eating one potato chip. -- Diane Duane
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading. -- Isaac Asimov
Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone. -- John Green
Read and Re-Read--"Re-reading, we always find a new book. -- C. S. Lewis
if a book isn't self-explanatory, then it isn't worth reading. -- Paulo Coelho
My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading. -- Joe Lhota
Reading a book is a silent conversation between two friends. -- Aman Jassal

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